A Permanent Arrangement

By A.C. Katt

Colin Kelly returns from the war with the sure knowledge that his marriage to Edna is a sham. He only insists on his own child and he gets her, his darling little girl Babs. For the rest, he copes as best he can until Edna places Babs in a boarding school and Colin ends up on the streets.

Bill Teague has loved Colin since he first saw him strolling through the art fair with little Babs on his shoulder. So when an old acquaintance calls him to come to Colin's aid before he throws him out of the pub for good, Bill goes.

Face to face in Bill's apartment, will their friendship survive the mutual confessions and legal problems Colin has?

• Language: English
• Publisher: JMS Books LLC
• Release date: Mar 14, 2021
• ISBN: 9781646567089

A.C. Katt

A.C. Katt was born in New York City’s Greenwich Village. She remembers sitting at the fountain in Washington Square Park listening while they passed the hat. At nine, her parents dragged her to New Jersey where she grew up, married and raised four children and became a reader of romantic fiction. At one time she owned over two thousand novels, until she and her husband took themselves and the cat to New Mexico for their health and its great beauty. For more information, please visit ackatt.com.

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A Permanent Arrangement

By A.C. Katt

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A Permanent Arrangement

By A.C. Katt

Sean, Comments on 1952

Gramps said that the city smelled and felt different in 1952. Sausage and peppers, pineapple, and papaya, cigarette smoke and exhaust fumes blended with wet newspapers and garbage, creating a unique odor that was New York. The end of the war brought about the era of white flight. In the fifties, families fled Manhattan to the Jersey Shore, unlike their pre-war counterparts who’d headed into Brooklyn, Queens, or Staten Island. The trip to Manhattan from the Jersey was a sixty-minute commute, but the consensus was it was better for the children. Gramps lived in Chelsea on Sixteenth between Seventh and Eighth Avenues. It was a four-story double-sided walkup. He and Grandma had a front-facing apartment on the second floor and Great Grandma Molly lived with Dad’s sister Kate on the next floor up.

Gramps was one of those left